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Why I Want To Be A Defensive Lawyer

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Growing up is truly frightening in my perspective. Even as I get older there is always that one mysterious question asking, What kind of career do you see yourself doing in the next thirty to forty years from now?. The question took me awhile to answer, why not be an actor, singer, or even a dancer? The idea made me laugh a bit knowing I have one out of a million chances to have the career I've dreamed about when I was younger, but I did know what I would be great at, and it would be being a lawyer. Even as a twelve-year-old kid, I do like to prove people wrong so that I am correct.

Becoming a lawyer takes some work, having to have good grades in high school and college, having passion in your personality and being good at researching and interviewing people. There is mainly two different types of lawyers who help people's cases. The first is a defensive lawyer, a defensive lawyer is a person who is the lawyer of the victim who is accused of the case. The second one is an offensive law, an offensive lawyer is the opposite one from the case who is against the victim. I choose a defensive lawyer because helping people even if they did do the crime can still have justice in their case. …show more content…

The first thing is, you would have to check the case out, gather information before doing anything else. Then you would need to interview your victim ask them many questions, and also gather their side of the story. Check for witnesses as well, because if anyone had viewed the crime then you would need them in court. Also, research the case, about the victims past or even the person's family of the person who had died. Cases can be tricky as well, you could be arguing over just the silliest case and not know it. That is why finding information and having the victim trust you and tell you the truth is a big thing in being a

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